Sublime Picnic

Cairde Sligo Arts Festival

A Dining Room Tales testing event hosted by Cairde Sligo Arts Festival.

Lian Bell and Xan Colman are multidisciplinary artists currently in residence with Cairde Sligo Arts Festival. They are developing a new participatory performance for Cairde 2027, and they're looking for volunteers to help test it.Following a week of creative development, Lian and Xan invite you to join them for a special work-in-progress sharing on Friday 31 July.Part walk, part conversation, part picnic, and part performance, this light-footed, location-responsive experience explores how we connect with one another and the places we share. As a participant, you'll help shape the work by experiencing it firsthand and sharing your thoughts afterwards.If you're curious, enjoy walking, and would like to be part of the creative process behind a new festival work, we'd love to have you join us.The event will start and finish at the Cairde office on Wolfe Tone Street.The event is free, but booking a ticket by Thursday 30th at 6pm is essential.Participants must be 18+.The event includes a 2.5 hour stroll and food. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements or food allergies when booking. If you have any questions about access, please email communications@cairdefestival.com.THE ARTISTSLian Bell is an artist and arts worker based in Dublin whose work often relies on designing shapes that attempt to hold and influence human interactions, however ephemeral or fleeting. She has a background in scenography, visual art, project management, coaching, and feminist activism, and is interested in hanging out, walking, quiet resistance, and travelling without flying. She has worked for over 25 years with some of the most significant arts organisations and contemporary performance makers in Ireland. <a href="http://www.lianbell.com/" title="http://www.lianbell.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.lianbell.com</a>Xan Colman is an artist and producer based in Helsinki. With a background in performance, theatre and classical music, Xan’s contemporary work centres on Dining Room Tales, a social art practice that invites a public into slow relational connection with an artist (and each other) around a meal. For Xan, togetherness is critical. How we choose to be together, how we commit to certain possibilities that arise from togetherness, these are the critical faculties that stimulate and train our collective resilience. <a href="http://www.diningroomtales.com/" title="http://www.diningroomtales.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.diningroomtales.com</a>Dining Room Tales #18 Sublime Picnic with Lian Bell is in development in 2026 with the assistance of Cairde Sligo Arts Festival, Irish Theatre Institute, and PUBLICS (Helsinki).

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